[The differential diagnostic significance of neurological syndromes in a malignant tumors].

It is reported on a 35-year-old patient with carcinoma of the stomach. The disease became manifest above all neurologically in form of a clinically and autoptically clear preterminal carcinomatous meningitis and a clinically probable paraneoplastic sensomotoric polyneuropathy as early symptoms. The case is discussed and classified on the basis of literary data. Here the differential-diagnostic significance of the paraneoplastic neuropathy as early symptom is emphasized.